David McCord Quotes
The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
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Voter ID laws have a disproportionate impact on groups that lean democratic - including blacks, hispanics and students.
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My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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During its first year of operation, Florida Virtual School had 77 students. The next year, it had 476 students; then 2,489 students the year after that.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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Let students use technologies in the classroom.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Good tests can help teachers determine how their students are performing and identify the areas in which their students need assistance. Like an X-ray, however, tests can diagnose, but they cannot cure.
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The majority of U.S. high school students don't know within 50 years when the Civil War occurred.
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The man who knows how will always be the student, but the man who knows why will continue to be the instructor.
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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The basic premise of 'A Course in Miracles' is that it teaches us to relinquish thoughts based on fear and to accept instead thoughts based on love.
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Our task is to educate their (our students) whole being so they can face the future. We may not see the future, but they will and our job is to help them make something of it.
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When you choose your profession, you also choose your own downfall or success. If one chooses to become an artist it is 99% certain that it will go to hell. So you should not become that. If you study economics on Oslo, 99% of all students will do very well and 1% will reach the top.
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I'm a decent man who exports flowers.
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At the time of Indian independence, I was a student in London and we the students, Indian students, celebrated the moment with great joy. I was exhilarated, no doubt, but the shadow of two events fell upon the jollifications. First, a sense of disappointment that the imperialist objective of dividing India has been achieved. And second, the communal carnage which took place in India cast another shadow on it.
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I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.
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Guys don't go for me. Period. I don't distract them. They don't sneak glances in my direction. They don't think of me when I'm not standing right in front of them. I'm scenery. I'm background.
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Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.
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We have played a very good side, playing at the sort of level we are aspiring to. We need to come up a couple of levels ourselves because at the moment we are not there.
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You know, I find it so difficult being a... as a matter of fact, little do people know that most of the leading members of the cast have a background that they would never expect them to have, and play the show they did.
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I get invited to many more literary festivals than I used to because I'm associated with 'Slumdog Millionaire,' the brand. Many more doors have opened up for me as a result of the global success of the film, although I believe that I'm the same person that existed before it.
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The decent docent doesn't doze; He teaches standing on his toes. His students dassn't doze and does, And that's what teaching is and was.
